Thursday, October 4, 2018

Armstrong Browning Library (CST)Current Time		University of Strathclyde (BST)Current Time
10:45-11:00 a.m.	Welcome Session [live streamed] Armstrong Browning Library ABL Lecture Hall	4:45-5:00 p.m.	Welcome Session [live streamed] University of Strathclyde
11:20 a.m.-1:00 p.m.	“100 in 100” [streamed] Performed by Dr. Mike Sanders and Jennifer Reid ABL Lecture Hall Experience 100 facets of 19th-century working-class life in Manchester told in 100 minutes through narrative and laboring-class balladry	5:20-7:00 p.m.	“100 in 100” [onsite viewing] Performed by Dr. Mike Sanders and Jennifer Reid Experience 100 facets of 19th-century working-class life in Manchester told in 100 minutes through narrative and laboring-class balladry
3:30-5:00 p.m.	Presentation and Exhibition [onsite only] ‘Ophans of earthly love’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Protest for Working Children Hankamer Treasure Room A brief presentation and exhibit produced by Dr. Joshua King’s Victorian Poetry Class (2018)
	Reception [onsite only] Honoring the benefactors of the Armstrong Browning Library

 

Friday, October 5, 2018

Armstrong Browning Library (CST)Current Time		University of Strathclyde (BST)Current Time
	Note: To accompany the Strathclyde workshop’s exploration of working-class writers and readers in the digital world, the key workshop speakers will record a brief introduction to their online project and discuss the challenges and opportunities that it has provided. These videos will be available on the conference website by mid-October: we will alert participants when they have been posted.	10:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.	Workshop [onsite only] Recovering Working-Class Voices for the Digital Age John Anderson, Room 504 Hosted by Dr. Kirstie Blair and Dr. Mike Sanders Dr. Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores U), on the Archive of Working-Class Writing Prof. John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent U) on Laboring-Class Poets Online Dr. Simon Rennie (U of Exeter) on the “Poetry of the Cotton Frame” project Dr. Francesca Benatti (The Open University) on the “Reading Experience Database” and the difficulties of recovering working-class reading practices Dr. Blair and Dr. Sanders will also discuss their “Piston, Pen & Press” project
		2:00-3:30 p.m.	Interactive Editing Session using COVE [onsite only] John Anderson, Room 504 Facilitated by Dr. Kirstie Blair and Dr. Mike Sanders
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	Presentations & Discussion [live streamed] ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Marjorie Stone, “Ebenezer Elliott’s Corn-Law Rhymes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “O pardon dear lady,” and ‘The Cry of the Children’: From ‘agricultural-evil’ to ‘Factory-evil'” Dr. Florence Boos, “’The Cry of the Children’ and the Poetry of Victorian Working Women”	5:00-6:30 p.m.	Presentations & Discussion [live streamed] Lord Hope Building, Level 2 Dr. Marjorie Stone, “Ebenezer Elliott’s Corn-Law Rhymes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “O pardon dear lady,” and ‘The Cry of the Children’: From ‘agricultural-evil’ to ‘Factory-evil'” Dr. Florence Boos, “’The Cry of the Children’ and the Poetry of Victorian Working Women”
2:00-3:00 p.m.	Interactive Digital Editing using COVE [onsite only] Facilitated by Dr. Joshua King ABL Lecture Hall
3:45-5:15 p.m.	Presentations [live streamed] New Perspectives on “Cry of the Children” at 175 ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Joshua King, ” ‘He is speechless as a stone’: Killing God and the Earth in ‘Cry of the Children'” Dr. Beverly Taylor, “Industrial Soundscape and ‘The Cry of the Children'” Dr. Linda Hughes, “Publishing with the Tories: EBB’s ‘Cry’ in Blackwood’s“		Note: Due to the late hour, Strathclyde participants are encouraged to attend this session individually via live stream.
	Presentation [live streamed] Results of COVE annotation sessions on Browning’s Cry of the Children
6:00-6:30 p.m.	Film Screening “Cry of the Children” (1912) Directed by George Nichols Produced by The Thanhouser Company ABL Lecture Hall